Wednesday 3rd and Thursday 4th
July
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| Oswestry Market |
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| Indoor Market |
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| St Oswalds Church |
Wednesday – We are off to Oswestry today by bus. The stop is a short walk up the road from
where we are moored. The bus came and
after about 20 minutes we were in Oswestry.
It is a nice town with plenty of shops and quite a lot of old buildings. There was an outdoor market today which had
quite a few stalls, so we had a wander around there and went in to the indoor
market and had a browse around there, it is on two floors.
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| Millennium Window |
We had a wander around the shops, then walked down to St. Oswald’s
Church. It is a big church. It was open so we went inside and had a look
around. There is a lovely millennium
window made by local artist Jane Gray in 2004.
It shows the tree of life with Christian symbols. Above are the crests of local organisations
who contributed to the cost of its installation. There is a monument to the
Yale family, descendents of Elihu Yale who gave money to an infant university
in the USA, which was then called Yale after him.
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| Yale Monument |
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| Triptych |
It is a very beautiful church. On
the wall is a large triptych which shows Moses and Aaron with the ten
commandments on stone tablets. Either
side are the Lord’s Prayer and the Creed, our statement of belief. This may have been painted by local carriage
painters and is thought to date from before 1730.
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| St. Catherine's Chapel |
It was then time for lunch, there was a café/shop in the church grounds
and we did look in there, but they only took cash and as we didn’t have a lot
with us, we went to find somewhere else.
We came across The Old Coffeepot and Tea Rooms, so went in there, it was
really nice and everyone was very friendly.
After lunch, we did some shopping then got the bus back. Oswestry was a nice town and we enjoyed our
visit there.
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| Under a bridge we go |
Thursday – Today we are on the move, just a mile or so to the Lion Quays
Hotel & Spa where they have their own mooring pontoons.
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| Cows by the canal |
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| And another bridge |
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| Lion Quays Hotel & Spa |
We left our mooring and headed off under the bridge and on our way. We met a few boats coming the other way, the
canal was a bit shallow in places so we were banging and scraping along but we
made it to the moorings. The
pontoons are rather silted up so we eased our bow in and moored up okay.
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| Pontoons at the hotel |
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| Sitting on the terrace by our boat |
There was a sign on the wall which said if you register at reception
they will give you a voucher for a complimentary drink so off we trotted to find
the reception. We register and sure
enough we were given a voucher for one drink.
We walked over to the Spa where they have a café and had a coffee then
headed to the restaurant and bar. They
had an extensive selection of gin but the gin of the month was Larios Rose so I
had that and we sat on the terrace overlooking the moorings in the glorious
sunshine watching the world go by.
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| Sign on the Canal |
Its a lovely hotel with extensive grounds and a wonderful setting right
by the canal. This evening we are having
a meal in the restaurant and will most probably sit outside on the terrace if
it stays as warm and sunny this evening as it is at present, it is an early
birthday treat for me from Kev so looking forward to that.
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| Pond in the grounds |
We are staying here tonight, then heading off in the morning.
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| Sun Terrace by the canal |
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| Moored at Lion Quays |
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